University of New England

Students minoring in women’s studies will be well-qualified to pursue graduate degrees and to find employment in a range of areas.

While some choose career fields that allow them to work with women specifically, women’s studies graduates are equally likely to work with a broad range of people in general. They have pursued careers in fields such as law, business, education, publishing, journalism, the arts, social service work, health professions, and all levels of government and public policy.

A degree in women’s studies is ideal for work in community agencies, such as those focused on counseling, domestic violence, women’s health, rape crisis, and human rights.

Even in cases in which a women’s studies minor is not directly relevant to a prospective career field’s subject matter, it provides job applicants with an array of indirect benefits that mirrors the benefits of other liberal arts majors: employers seeking socially conscious applicants with highly developed written and oral communication skills and critical, flexible intellectual capacity will find women’s studies minors particularly attractive.